Roasted Red pepper Pasta with Pine nut Sauce:

It is colourful, simple, yet bursting with flavour, very satisfying one pot nutritious meal.

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How I proceeded with the recipe-

Ingredients:

Whole wheat pasta – 1 pack

Pine nuts – ½ cup

Milk – 1 to 1 ½ cup

Onion -1 (sliced)

Red bell pepper-3

Yellow bell pepper – 2

Green bell pepper -1

Red chilli flakes

Oregano

Olive oil – 1 table spoon

Garlic salt – as required

Grated cheese – 3 table spoon

Garlic greens or spring onion greens – little

Method:

  • Wash Red peppers and apply some oil to the outer surface.

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  • Soak pine nuts in milk.
  • Slice onion, green pepper and yellow pepper.
  • Cook pasta in sufficient water by adding little salt and oil. When it is cooked, drain the water and reserve this water to further use.
  • Pre heat oven to 200 C and keep the setting to Grill Option.
  • Make 4 quarters of red bell pepper and remove seeds, arrange this in a butter paper lined cookie tray.

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  • When oven is pre heated and ready, keep this tray in an oven and grill this for 10 minutes and then bake this further for 10 minutes.
  • (if you grill at first, you can avoid oozing of the water content from the bell pepper and it will be firm and juicy)

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  • When bell pepper is ready, make a paste by adding the pine nut and milk which has been soaked, with the bell pepper, and grind it in a mixer jar.

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  • Keep one wide mouth tawa, add olive oil or butter, when it is hot add sliced onion and fry for 2 minutes.

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  • Add sliced green and yellow bell pepper, little garlic salt, red chilli flakes and oregano. Fry for a while and add ground bell pepper paste.
  • Adjust the consistency by adding drained water which you reserved.
  • Check the taste and adjust salt, seasoning, red chilli flakes.

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  • When it is cooked, add grated cheese and mix in drained pasta and mix nicely. Serve by garnishing with garlic or spring onion greens.

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Note:

-If you don’t have garlic salt, add chopped garlic to the hot oil while adding onion.

-You can use any nuts of your choice.